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WMBIFF(1) General Commands Manual WMBIFF(1) NAME
WMBiff - A dockable Mailbox Monitor SYNOPSIS
wmbiff [-display <display name>] [-geometry +XPOS+YPOS] [-c <filename>] [-h] [-v] [-debug] DESCRIPTION
WMbiff displays the status of up to five mailboxes. It gives information about new mail, if any, or total number of messages. It also has mail retrieval capabilies, and can be configured to do this automatically. At the moment, UNIX-style, maildir, POP3, APOP and IMAP4 mail- boxes are supported. WMbiff also supports Licq history files and gnomeicu, displaying the number of new messages in your running session, as if they were mail. The mailboxes are displayed in 5 different lines, each one with its own description of up to five chars. If no mail is present in a given mailbox, WMbiff will display the total number of mails in cyan. If there's new mail in the box, the number of new messages will be dis- played in yellow. When new mail arrives, this number will optionally flash for a small period of time, and also optionally, a command can be executed on mail arrival (for example, opening your mail reader or playing a sound file). Pressing mouse button 1 will execute a command, defined in the user's config file. Mouse button 3 will execute a command to fetch mail, if defined. OPTIONS
-h Show summary of options. -v Show version of program. -display <display name> Use an alternate X Display. -geometry <geometry> Initial window position. -c <filename> Use specified config file. -debug Print verbose log of progress. BUGS
Send bug reports or suggestions to the WMBiff Development Mailing List <wmbiff-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>. Consider attaching a tran- script of your session, generated using: wmbiff -debug | tee wmbiff-log Be sure to remove any instances of your password. FILES
~/.wmbiffrc peruser wmbiff configuration file. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net>, originally for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by oth- ers). WMBiff was first maintained by Gennady Belyakov. Since January 2001 it is maintained group of people that have added lots of new features to the original program. Please see the README document for a list of all the people involved. SEE ALSO
wmbiffrc(5) /usr/share/doc/wmbiff/examples/sample.wmbiffrc (or equivalent for your system) wmbiff October 4, 2001 WMBIFF(1)
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readmail - read mail from a mail folder or incoming mailbox SYNOPSIS
folder] [number-list|pattern] DESCRIPTION
The program displays messages from your incoming mailbox or a specified mail folder. Within the mail system (see elm(1) with no operands and optionally the or option, displays the appropriate headers and the body of the cur- rent message. With the number-list operand and no options, displays the corresponding messages and a summary of the headers from your incoming mailbox. With the pattern operand and no options, displays the first message that matches the pattern and a summary of the headers from your incom- ing mailbox. Options supports the following options. Print all messages that match pattern. If no pattern was specified, this option is ignored. Use file folder for the operations instead of the incoming mailbox. Include the entire header of the matched message or messages when displaying their text. The default is to display the and lines only. Exclude all headers. Put form feeds ( between message headers. This is useful when printing sets of messages. Operands supports the following operands. number-list A blank-separated list of the ordinal locations of messages in the mail file (i.e., their "message numbers"), up to 25 at a time. The character means the last message in the mail file. Similarly, represents every message in the file (i.e., The message numbers are sorted into ascending order. Thus, produces the same output as pattern A string that is present in one of the messages. This pattern can be typed in directly (no quotes) if the words are separated by a single space in the actual message. The pattern matching is case sensitive, so and are not equiva- lent. Leading digits (on the first word) are not permitted; however, you can precede them with a space and quote the entire string, if the space occurs in the message, as in . EXAMPLES
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was developed by HP. FILES
Incoming mailbox Temporary file for SEE ALSO
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